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At Lowe's Innovation Labs, we imagine, explore, and accelerate the future of home improvement retail through emerging technologies.
The physical and digital worlds of home improvement are becoming one – thanks to AI, spatial computing, and a host of other emerging technologies – and our customers' and associates' expectations are changing in the process. At Labs, we explore this future through emerging tech prototyping and partnerships, bringing promising initiatives to scale and even commercialization. Ultimately, we build foundational tech capabilities that will enable Lowe's to better serve customers for decades to come.
The primary purpose of this role is to translate business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs and to deliver code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions. This includes developing, configuring, or modifying complex integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments. This role facilitates the implementation and maintenance of complex business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment of released applications.
Tech Skills:
core SDE (algorithm, pipeline), machine learning
Prior experience with machine learning, and/or computer vision.
Bonus: deep learning, AI
Key Responsibilities:
Translates complex business requirements and functional specifications into executable stories, designs and code modules; partners with Product Team to understand business needs and functional specifications
Independently writes high quality, maintainable, and robust code by building adequate test suits (like Unit, Integration, Performance, Chaos testing, etc.) and observability framework (like Alerts, Metric Dashboards, Logging and reliability runbooks, etc.)
Guides application and software development teams in the design and build of complex solutions and ensures that teams are in alignment with the architecture blueprint, standards, target state architecture, and strategies
Participates and mentors' other engineers in software development technologies and processes by creating onboarding documents, issue Root Cause Analysis (RCA), key learnings, demos and share-out sessions
Automates and simplifies team development, test, and operations processes
Evaluates new software, tools and technologies to provide objective analysis and recommendations to the team
Demonstrates expertise in at least 1 of the four competencies below with working knowledge of 2 others:
* Fronted: Building UI using React and NodeJS with proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS
* Middleware: Building resource efficient, scalable, and resilient Microservices and APIs using Java/Python/Go.
* Databases: Building optimal database persistence solutions using right database technologies (ex, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, KAFKA etc.)
* DevOps: Creating automated CI-CD processes using containerization solutions (Docker), CI tools (Drone, Jenkins, Spinnaker), Orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm) and Infrastructure automation (ArgoCD, Rancher, Ansible, Terraform, Chef)
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
5 years of experience in software development or a related field
4 years of experience in database technologies
4 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field
5 years of IT experience developing and implementing business systems within an organization
5 years of experience working with defect or incident tracking software
5 years of experience writing technical documentation in a software development environment
3 years of experience working with an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework
3 years of experience leading teams, with or without direct reports
5 years of experience working with source code control systems
Experience working with Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment tools
5 years of experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Pay Range for CA, CO, HI, NJ, NY, WA: $106,200.00 - $201,800.00 annually
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit
https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits
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Associate Benefits (
https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/joining-our-team
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Working at one of the largest retail companies has its perks. We offer exceptional benefits and wellness programs for eligible full-time and part-time associates, tailored for many different lifestyles. Our benefits range from health, vision and dental insurance to paid vacation, tuition assistance and parental and family-building benefits. Plus, we offer learning and development opportunities to help our associates grow their skills and achieve their goals.
Health, Dental and Vision insurance
Life and Disability insurance
Paid time off based on role, tenure, and locality, including vacation, holidays, sick and volunteer time
Flexible spending and health savings accounts
401(k) Retirement account with company match
Employee Assistance Program with concierge, work/life services and no-cost counseling for all kinds of needs
Education support programs, including tuition assistance and trade skills scholarships
Business Travel Accident insurance
Maternity and Parental leave
Adoption assistance
Lowe's Associate Discount and broad discount platform
Other discretionary benefits (based on eligibility) include annual bonuses, enrollment in Lowe's Employee Stock Purchase Plan and/or deferred compensation plan, and grant awards
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
Pay Range for CA, CO, HI, NJ, NY, WA: $106,200.00 - $201,800.00 annually Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.
